Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-20
! CATARRH,
Consumption, Asthma
BRONCHITIS
TREATED SPECIALLY AND SUCCESSFULLY BY
WI DAVIS, NJ. D. w.H. DAVIS, n. D.
|DRS. DAVIS &DAVIS,
ASH North Spring Street.
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AND
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Combined with Constitutional Remedies.
mEDICAL INHALATlO N
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

the employ yment OF Menlcal lnnalatlOn IOr
Its direct effects on the diseased organs;
and, At the same time, adopting such hy-
gienic measures and administering such
medicines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectually purify the blood. give tone to
the nervous system d"c up ana
other words, we employ combined local
and general treatment.
What is MEDICAL inhalation? Before
stating briefly, what Medical Inhalation
to state clearly what it is not.
Medical Inhalation IL not cure-all. a
nOstrum, or panacea. 1t is not specific
remedy for any disease. 1t Is not quack
the ills that flesh is heir to, an intended to
fill the pockets of its proprietors 1t is not
q talisman, whose possession tnsures health
to Its pnssessor without the intervention OF
sense or judgment. Medical inhalation Is
none of these things. .
Medical Iuhalatlon is simply aud solely a
method of taking medicines by inhsling or
breathing them into the lungs instead OF
swallowing them into the stomach. By In.
directly to the seat of the disease, In the
nose. fhrost or lungs; and it is clear to
every reasoning person how peculiarly ap.
plicable Inhalation Is in the disorders OF
the organs named. II you have scalded or
burned the surface of the hody, or wounded
any limb or member, you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the disor-
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you apply
1t directly to the seat of the wound or In
jury Why, then. when suffering from ca
tarih h of the nasal passages or throat, or af.
ficted wi h liberation of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken Into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
disease, but It applies the remedy In the
gaseous or vaporous fern, in which form,
as is we'll known, medicines act most power.
fully How much greater. for example, ID
the effect of q drachm OF chloroform, when
quantity when swallowed into the stomach.
The same IL true of chlorine, OF iodine. and
of many other substances: by inhalation
the medicine is not poured Into the stomach
system in search of malady which may be
mainly or entirely local one; but by this
method the proper remedy Is applied di-
rectly to the diseased organ. VINO, after
studyi.g the anotomy OF the ;nu,ggs;o lungs; can ~
the air-tubes and air-cells. the direct appli-
cation of the healing medicine by tDhala.
ton to the diseased parts, Is the correct and
rational method of treatment? Who. on
the other hand, can be so irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces of the air
passages in this case, is by the way of the
stomach? Ply siology teaches us that the
membrane. or SKIN, nning Ine aiI Passages
slightly modified form of the same structure
as thas which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment he proper and necessary Tor in1am'
N atiOns, concessions and ulcera.ions OF the
one and not be equally so in the case of the
other?
diseases of the nose, throat and lungs, de-
monstrates, beyond all question, tnas me
that tIeatIne mt which combines the local
effects of medical inhalation with the cOn-
stitutionsl effects of systematic remedies,
given in the usual way by the stomach.
One or both methods must be adopted as
the Gil cumhtances den and, ana such RENE
dies must be employed AZ the EXPERIENCE
and Judgment of the physician have proved
to be proper in each particular case.
meatca, ,adyOCates of sn hn nsAtiOn.
Physicians who were educated twenty
wears ago or more, and who nave not Kept
up with the times in the ADVANCE IN meol.
cal science, have very little loea OF the great
impnrtance all leading writers now give to
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pull
monarv diseases To such an extent Is this
true that no patient should intrust his case
to auy physician who Is not well prepared
and thoroughly sanpgPeq1n pgP@1nisterns w evefg cf ths
proper remedies by the method Of fnhala-
The numerous cures effected by inhala.
lation in cases seemingly past all help, ana
the uniform success attending Its uss In
diseases OF the respiratory organs, renders
II ohlieatory Oil every honest physician to
at once apply himself TO gam practlcai
knowledge of the Inhalation. or, II that is
not possible, he Is at least pouno W oecine
Among the most eminent physicians OF
the ape who are fully ava kened to the value
of Medical Inhalation In these diseases are
'nT Tbe ceIebeated DR.. Burden Saunj ersou;
Dr la Roche. OF the Paris Academy OF
Medicine; DIR. Frederick Lang ghaus, OF BEL
lin. Drs Klebs and Tommasl-Crudeli; Sir
Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, scotland;
Dr.. Eichler. DR.; Cameron, ne pl celebrated ur' Dr.
Hnghlines jackson. the venerable Dr. Rob-
err Dickinson. Prof. Thierfelder. Spencer
Wells, DR.. Hilton Flagge. Dr.. G. T, WOOD
PTs ssSa Il Sbs%nsan sna nisf Dr. p R.
nlsn"i hrs Anstie. Bali, Fuller. Lancereaux,
Krauss Husuenie, Heller. Orth, Corrigan,
| Fenwick. and many others.
With Aarcely a single exception every
medical authority of eminence recognizes
the Wonderful potency of this new method,
and The coming generation OF physlclans
srs certaip to be thoroughly educated
therein. At present 1t is only few pnysi'
clans here aud there VINO ife nsvs ssudy Int are
6tted in any way to employ the wonderful
resonrces of Medical Inhalation In the cure
of these diseases.
The Durability of Consumption.
| Enr five wears the celebrated DR.. I. H.
Bennet waa pathologist to the 4 yal In.
Urinary OF Edinburgh;, ana III ID IN, ms sh gieSt ga,
work on Consumption ne "aAes the ioi'
lowing statement: "a , odo rnwords ~
oooo NOS. .mortem examinations OF persons
dw;ppy I po'f from various diseases, and was
cSypstsantly yss meeting with cases in which I
ton, which had evidently healed SadsS u up or
h;nat Nstuie did not seem to have been
succSessfui in restoring the wasted lung
suSSts s,SStance hut the cavities were dried up,
the progress Of the disease ,,s ar5ested aud nd